Dante's Rolodex

The fray is "Free Homesteads on Venus!"

Some days more like "Free Homesteads on Uranus!"

The Fray is a small capsule of society, at large. Fraysters by and large act pretty much as they do in real life here but love to deny that they do.

like a home away from home

I had to look up "eructation."

a steaming, foetid pile of cabalistic pandering 5% of the time, the rest of the 95%, it is perfect, always a lot of fun, unique, and posters offer up opinions and information that one would be hard pressed to find anywhere else on the internet in one place. imho.
Slate is very nice to provide this service to any and all who are interested, and at no cost to readers or contributors.

But man, is it ever exhausting.

I like cotton candy a lot and so I can live with either of those.

Oh here is another:

BOTF is like a good pizza. You'll always take another slice, even though you know it may give you heartburn.

... our scrawlings but piss-holes in the snow.

The fray is where caricatures do battle with stereotypes in the name of perspective.

host to a couple basket cases worth of self damning, at least one would be serial killer type, and serves as HQ to average fundamentalist bigots fray wide.

Where Ariadne's thread is made of smoke.